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In the wake of this third accident in Elizabeth, mounting public concern led to a lengthy closure of Newark Airport and to a nationwide review of the safety of airport operations. The airport reopened only nine months later, on November 15, 1952, after the investigations into the crashes determined that the airport facilities were not at fault. [3]
The ensuing fire killed 6 and injured 14. [18] [19] 9 February 1982: Japan Air Lines Flight 350: Haneda Airport, Tokyo Seiji Katagiri 24 Flight 350 was on approach to Haneda Airport when the pilot Seiji Katagiri deliberately nose-dived the plane to crash it. The pilot was then subdued by other flight crews, yet the plane remained descending.
The third crash, National Airlines Flight 101, on February 11, 1952, killed 29 of the 63 people on board and narrowly missed an orphanage. Following a public outcry, Newark Airport was immediately closed by the Port of New York Authority and remained so for nine months, until November 15. [ 6 ]
On 14 June 1972, Akan, Flight 471 operated by a Douglas DC-8 struck the banks of River Yamuna, about 20 km (12 mi) east of New Delhi's Palam International Airport (Now known as IGI Airport). The crash killed 10 out of 11 crew members, 72 out of 76 passengers on board and 3 people on the ground died, including famous Brazilian actress Leila ...
The 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash occurred on June 30, 1959, when a U.S. F-100 fighter jet crashed into Miyamori Elementary School in Ishikawa, Okinawa, killing 18 people, including 11 students, and injuring 210 others. The crash led to protests against U.S. military presence in Okinawa and calls for the return of the islands to Japan. [12]
FedEx Express Flight 80 was a scheduled cargo flight from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, to Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture (near Tokyo), Japan. On March 23, 2009, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (N526FE) [ 2 ] operating the flight crashed at 6:48 am JST (21:48 UTC , March 22), while attempting a landing ...
During climb, the first officer's overuse of rudder controls in response to wake turbulence from a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 that took off minutes before it, caused the vertical fin to snap. The plane crashed into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens. [12] The crash killed all 260 people on the plane and five people on the ground.
FedEx Express Flight 14 was a scheduled cargo flight from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, via Malaysia, Taiwan, and Alaska.On July 31, 1997, the aircraft flying this route crashed during landing on its final segment at Newark International Airport, inverting and catching fire, injuring all five people on board.